Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sugar substitutes like saccharin , cyclamate and aspartame , are all targetted at dieters , combining a sweet taste with no calories ( although each one of them has faced questions concerning safety ) . |
| 2 | Having r you see I 've had clients saying to me well , I 'm not sure about this one . |
| 3 | Oh I ca n't I 've got things to do in the office , a busy company here . |
| 4 | Now that you 're in trouble I want to help you , you 've got children , I 've got children , I know what the position is , tell me what you got into and see if I can help you out . |
| 5 | As I , well I got given orders . |
| 6 | I did n't particularly like the name at first — I got called things like Stew and Stew-Pot at school — but I 've got used to it . |
| 7 | I 'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral ; I 'd imagined cops slinking through the undergrowth , whispering into radios , gradually closing in . |
| 8 | If you have been through a divorce , you must have asked yourself , what if I 'd handled things differently ? |
| 9 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 10 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd heard rumours , but discounted them . |
| 12 | I 'd heard scratchings , that was it . |
| 13 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 14 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 15 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
| 16 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 17 | I 'd seen pictures of you … a home movie ; you were a beautiful young woman — why should n't I agree to look you up ? |
| 18 | Last year , right , I was on holiday in the South of France and I , I 'd made friends with these two German people and I 'm a bit wary of German people anyway , cos of what 's happened and everything . |
| 19 | Well if I 'd swapped monitors with you can pro and I do n't suppose you 'll wan na get rid of your Amstrad today |
| 20 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 21 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 22 | Cos he used to go shooting there and and they went in there and they should n't of done because Michael told them I 'd taken meadows back and he sa , he said when Tony told them , they , they 'd been there shooting he said well they 're , they 're out of bounds ! |
| 23 | I 'd used dikes , DFs and things like that before , so I knew what I was getting into . |
| 24 | Curtis had closed that side door twice but I 'd found reasons to go back through , the dogs ' bowls , checking the padlock on the cellar and , somehow , I did n't bother to shut it . |
| 25 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 26 | likes the short sleeves anyway , been shocked if I 'd got sleeves |
| 27 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 28 | I 'd got sandwiches and some gin . |
| 29 | He said he said I 'd got legionnaires disease did n't he ? |
| 30 | I knew I 'd got kids written down here for a reason . |